About Josephine Elizabeth Burns Glasgow
Lived 1887 – 1969 (aged 81). Josephine Elizabeth Burns Glasgow was an American mathematician.
Josephine Elizabeth Burns Glasgow (July 22, 1887 – January 22, 1969) was an American mathematician whose Ph.D. thesis, "The abstract definitions of the groups of degree 8" was published in the American Journal of Mathematics.
She married Robert D. Glasgow in 1916.
In 1928 Glasgow's husband took a post as state entomologist of New York State and the couple moved to Albany. Josephine became active in the American Association of University Women, rising through various roles to be the vice president of the national board of directors in 1952. In 1951 the Albany section named a fellowship in her honour.
Career
Glasgow received her A.B. degree in 1909 and her master's degree in mathematics in 1911. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois in 1913, being the second woman to do so at that university. Her doctoral supervisor was George Abram Miller.
She was an instructor at the University of Illinois.
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American mathematician (1887-1969)
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Josephine Elizabeth Burns Glasgow was born on 22 July 1887 in Greenville.
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